VacationSelector

Philadelphia or Valencia?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

PhiladelphiaValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 67 points.67
PhiladelphiaValencia
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km112
Coast distance13 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 1 points.1
PhiladelphiaValencia
Score7778
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,7141,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3533
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 5 points.5
PhiladelphiaValencia
Score6055
Museums within 10 km8959
Museums within 2 km of centre4826
Share of museums within 2 km %5444
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 11 points.11
PhiladelphiaValencia
Score5970
Drinking venues within 4 km9301,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre575957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6263
Nightclubs within 4 km41108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 4 points.4
PhiladelphiaValencia
Score4953
Protected land share 50 km %1410
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8964
Park area within 2 km75 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 11 points.11
PhiladelphiaValencia
Score5342
Tourist attractions within 2 km1612
Park area within 2 km75 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 2 points.2
PhiladelphiaValencia
Score5452
Notable places within 2 km8878
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 28 points.28
PhiladelphiaValencia
Score4371
Price level global10060.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 24 points.24
PhiladelphiaValencia
Score6084
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 31 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 112 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months08
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPhiladelphiaValencia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
PalmaPMI
8 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
1 h 0 m
€32-53
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 45 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
8 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
7 h 35 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
2 h 15 m
€110-139
VLC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
1 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
2 h 0 m
€72-115
VLC · 9 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasurePhiladelphiaValencia
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation12 m15 m
Main airportPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhiladelphiaValencia
City population1,603,797840,792
People per km²4,3396,242
Museums within 10 km5446
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre7592
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.